Government equally restricts the rulers and ruledSolution is the general will of the people, the difference of the individual wills that cancel eachotherNo individual interests, only commonGov't is always fraud, restricting freedomCan only be legit

Kant

Reason is the basis for the social contractMan has moral authority over himselfMorality fundamental to freedom

Hegel

Content of morality combined with right motives at end of historyNo conflict between politics and moralityRule from reason: no arbitrary laws No restrictions on freedom

Marx

Solution to authority is communismRevolution = the abolition of private propertyAcquire property for individual willCan no longer exploit; own labour

Nietzsche

Self preservation is result of will to power, not the main drive of humanity

Power over others less important than power over self

Machiavelli

Individuals have a necessity to acquire, unending process

Hobbes

No property in the SON, preservation of prop. comes from Government

Locke

Extension of personal autonomy, value is created through labour

Rousseau

Property is antithetical to freedom, beginning of the end100% human convention1st occupancy, add labour valueHuman necessity unnatural, result of competition and differences

Kant

Man can never be free morally, never be free of physical necessity

Hegel

Necessity can be escaped

Human freedom achieved through historyUnlocking freedom is unlocking the mindresolution of all conflict

Marx

Man cannot escape necessity, can overcome/conquer over timeValue added theory of labour = justification for revoltProperty inherently bad, causes alienation, pushes unnatural necessity on workers, no longer own their own labour, become commoditized

Machiavelli

Morality about the ends, not the meansJustice != the good

Hobbes

Surrender ability to publicly judge morality

Locke

Same as hobbes on Morality, not as many rightsState cant compel morality